From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sven Joachim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Source and compiling instructions for old version of Emacs (< 19.x) Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:55:04 +0200 Message-ID: <874oss374n.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> References: <4A735183.2050006@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249073721 909 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2009 20:55:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:55:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Earl Kent Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 31 22:55:14 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MWz8D-0007GL-7p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:55:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41805 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWz8C-0008WU-Kt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:55:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWz87-0008Uf-LD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:55:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWz82-0008R7-Uj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:55:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53023 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWz82-0008R4-SZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:55:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:39744) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MWz82-00089w-7V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:55:02 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 31 Jul 2009 20:54:58 -0000 Original-Received: from p54867C0D.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO turtle.gmx.de) [84.134.124.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp011) with SMTP; 31 Jul 2009 22:54:58 +0200 X-Authenticated: #28250155 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19do/sN6dldA1gUuAqA+3TQGZD9WH7EkZSZ7AET+2 5hUbS/fZGP/z2M Original-Received: by turtle.gmx.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E7FF6354A2; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:55:04 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <4A735183.2050006@gmail.com> (Earl Kent's message of "Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:18:11 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.96 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.6 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:113487 Archived-At: On 2009-07-31 22:18 +0200, Earl Kent wrote: > I'm working on some research projects on the history of text editor > technologies and more generally the early days of the free software > movement. As part of that research I would like to compile, on a > contemporary Linux distribution, runnable, early versions of the code, > say circa `88. I've looked all over the Internet the only early > version of emacs I can find is of 18.59, which is already 1992. > > Does anyone know of earlier versions and have > instructions/scripts/patches for compiling it for Linux? (Even early > versions of 19.x took a lot of hacking for me to get up and running > and I still can't 18.59 to run without seg-fault on startup.) The Gentoo project still supports Emacs 18.59, it seems: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/emacs/emacs.xml. Two older versions, 16.56 and 18.41, are available at http://matt.lee.name/gnu/MIT/gnu/. Getting these to build will be a formidable task, I suspect. Sven